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Latitude: 55.5972 / 55°35'49"N
Longitude: -2.7198 / 2°43'11"W
OS Eastings: 354740
OS Northings: 633964
OS Grid: NT547339
Mapcode National: GBR 93FQ.ZD
Mapcode Global: WH7WQ.6K4Z
Plus Code: 9C7VH7WJ+V3
Entry Name: Corn Exchange, 12 Market Square, Melrose
Listing Name: Market Square, Corn Exchange and K H Thorburn, Chemist
Listing Date: 19 February 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382953
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37797
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200382953
Location: Melrose
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Melrose
Electoral Ward: Leaderdale and Melrose
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Corn exchange Entertainment centre Event venue
David Cousin, 1862-3, Scottish jacobean; symmetrical 3 storey, 5 bay front, coursed squared bull-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings; ground floor: central door to shop has date 1863 and initials DC. Door in outer left-hand bay and window in outer right-hand bay have elaborate strap-work crests. 1st floor 3 close-spaced windows at centre with strap-work pediments and cast-iron balcony carried on corbels before. Windows in flanking outer bays are framed by colonettes with similar pediments. Upper floor: large crowstepped gable at centre, corbelled out above 1st floor windows to attic, flanking gabled and finialled wall-head dormers at outer bays. Crowstepped skews with rectangular rendered stacks. Slated roof.
Cost ?3,000 B Group.
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